The Tale
Long ago, when the Orbs were still young and whole, Plogob the Noble, the prince and eldest heir to the crown over the Plipple, had come to need a bride. The suitors traveled from far around Uphka to offer themselves as a spouse, but he did not see them as fit. He desired the most beautiful woman from all the Orbs to be his wife. At his request, hundreds more flooded to his palace to make their offers, and none would suffice.
Since she was not answering the call, Plogob decided he would have to find her himself. Spans of his life were consumed in seeking his bride as he scanned the other Orbs for one worthy to sit beside himself. After much time and generations passed below him, he found his love at long last. He immediately set out to meet her and beseeched her. The girl, Larid, was flattered by the proposal and the fact that one of such repute would request that someone like herself, with her lowly stature, wed him. She gladly agreed to marry Plogob on one condition: that she would be queen.
The lived many spans happily together and had seven beautiful daughters, the most stunning on all of Uphka; however, her life was fated to be shorter than his. As she awaited her spirits to be claimed, she asked one last thing of her husband. He had made her a queen as promised but only of the Golden Orb. The other six were outside of her rule. To remedy this, she requested that each of her lovely daughters be married to the king of each Orb. Her wishes were obeyed.
The first stayed on Uphka and continued the royal bloodline. The second was sent to Zease, where the emperor of the Odika gladly accepted the gift. The third and fourth were sent to Vehaj, where the chieftain of the Kikult and Nrothfyl warlord were forced to end their generations of war on account of their new brides. The fifth was sent to Obog, but the Jork were a backwards people and rejected the offering as "hideous". The Vodi that had been migrated to the White Orb saw otherwise and their general took the bride instead. The sixth was sent to Idos where she married the king of the Knamu. None were sent to Wani, as they could not survive the frigid waters. The seventh was wed as they transversed the stars to the Mydra that lived between the worlds.
Her daughters were married off across the Orbs, and Larid passed on satisfied. Each of her seven daughters bore seven daughters of their own, each one claimed as the most beautiful their Orb had ever seen. They, too, were wed to the highest nobility or warriors within their race, and this continued. For seven generations, seven daughters of beauty exceeding that of any other were born and wed off. It eventually came to be that all daughters carried the stunning grace of the distant queen in every household.
At this, Plogob, then himself weak with age, smiled as he saw his cherished wife's dream fulfilled. She was in the face of every woman and, thus, dominated all of the Orbs.
Even to this day, a "golden bride" is the name given to a woman of extraordinary beauty who seemingly, or at times literally, comes from the heavens. Tales of the gentle women coming from the night sky and helping kind hearted farmers and peasants are widespread between all the Orbs.
The Truth
That is how the legend goes, but legends are often not whole. The complete tale was never gathered and thus never passed on, but it is shared with you now. The lady Larid was a fair beauty, but the truth was not recorded of her. The Jork did reject her daughter, but their reason was misunderstood. Larid, Queen of the Orbs, was a Jork, and not one of her famed fairness. To her people, she was as ugly as they came. This was not a backwards view, but, by comparison, every other Jork female was unanimously more attractive. The golden bride was rejected since more stunning and plentiful beauties were already aptly accessible. A false rumor tells that Jork kept their women locked up from outsider eyes to keep their horrid nature from being seen, but it is actually done in mercy. They keep other males from seeing their Jork wives so that they are not crushed and dismal about their own.
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